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1 Octave has been mostly ported to Windows NT and Windows 95 using the
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2 beta 17 release of the Cygnus GNU-WIN32 tools. Not everything works,
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3 but it is usable. If you would like to volunteer to work on
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4 improving this port, please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
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6 Here is a list of current problems (and workarounds, where available).
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8 * There is no binary version of Octave available for Windows NT or
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9 Windows 95. One will probably be released when the port is a little
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10 more stable.
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12 * To compile and install Octave on a Windows NT or Windows 95 system,
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13 you will need to get the beta 17 release of the GNU-WIN32 tools. They
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14 are available from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32.
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16 * There is a conflict between the files /cygnus/include/g++/String.h and
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17 /cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/include/stringh. You should
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18 rename or remove /cygnus/include/g++/String.h. (These file names
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19 assume that you have installed the GNU-WIN32 tools in /cygnus).
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21 * On Windows 95 systems, there is a bug that causes redirections to
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22 /dev/null to fail. You can work around the problem by substituting
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23 /dev/nul for /dev/null in all of the files that use it. (This
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24 problem is fixed in the b17.1 release of the tools.)
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26 * You will need to have f2c and libf2c.a or g77 installed. You can get
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27 a copy of f2c from ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/f2c.
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29 * You will also need a termcap library. The GNU termcap library seems
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30 to work. You can get it from any GNU archive site, including
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31 ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/termcap-1.3.tar.gz.
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33 * GNU info doesn't work yet. It compiles but doesn't run. Perhaps the
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34 problem is just that a proper termcap entry needs to be defined.
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36 * If no other pager can be found, Octave will use more.com. Since
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37 that's a pretty limited pager (no going backward, etc.) you may want
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38 to find a working version of less. The GNU-WIN32 tools used to
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39 include a copy of less, but I am told it was dropped from the
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40 distribution because it didn't work very well. If you know of a
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41 better port of less that will work with Octave, please contact
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42 bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
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44 * To make plotting work, you will need to find a version of gnuplot
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45 that can read commands from a pipe. The binary versions of gnuplot
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46 for Windows that I found could only read from their command windows,
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47 and wouldn't accept commands through a pipe, so they could not be
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48 called from Octave.
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50 After deleting -DREADLINE from the Makefile, I was able to compile a
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51 working version of gnuplot 3.6 beta 315 using the GNU-WIN32 tools,
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52 but it does not support the Windows graphics terminal. It does
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53 support dumb terminals and lots of other output devices, including
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54 PostScript, but it would be much nicer if it could open a separate
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55 window and draw pretty graphs there.
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57 * If Octave takes a long time to find function files, you may have to
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58 modify your LOADPATH to avoid device names specified using the
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59 `//DEV/sudir' syntax. To map the D: drive (for example) to
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60 /D_DRIVE, do the following:
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62 cd /
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63 mkdir /D_DRIVE
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64 mount d: /D_DRIVE
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66 Then you can set your LOADPATH to include /D_DRIVE/subdir instead of
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67 //d/subdir.
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69 If you know of solutions for any of the problems mentioned above,
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70 please contact bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.
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72 More information about the GNU-WIN32 project is available via the WWW
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73 at http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32.
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75 John W. Eaton
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76 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu
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77 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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78 Department of Chemical Engineering
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